Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 15, 1953

¶ In Pittsburgh, canny Branch Rickey, general manager of the Pirates,
traded his most valuable gate attraction, Outfielder Ralph Kiner (and
three other players) to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for six players
and a bundle of cash. In Slugger Kiner, 30, the Cubs drew a home-run
champion of the major leagues for the last six years, promptly put him
to work in the same outfield with Hank Sauer who tied Kiner in homers
last year (37). Chicago also picked up Kiner's $75,000 salary, second
highest in baseball (after St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial's). Rickey
was estimated to have reduced his...